Crime, Shame and Reintegration

John Braithwaite

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511804618

Crime, Shame and Reintegration is a contribution to general criminological theory. Its approach is as relevant to professional burglary as to episodic delinquency or white collar crime. Braithwaite argues that some societies have higher crime rates than others because of their different processes of shaming wrongdoing. Shaming can be counterproductive, making crime problems worse. But when shaming is done within a cultural context of respect for the offender, it can be an extraordinarily powerful, efficient and just form of social control. Braithwaite identifies the social conditions for such successful shaming. If his theory is right, radically different criminal justice policies are needed - a shift away from punitive social control toward greater emphasis on moralizing social control. This book will be of interest not only to criminologists and sociologists, but to those in law, public administration and politics who are concerned with social policy and social issues.

‘Braithwaite’s new book is important. It integrates legalistic ideas about deterrence with sociological and social psychological ideas about why people commit delinquencies and crimes. It won’t be the last word on crime causation but it will set scholars and researchers on the right path to enunciating the last word. I predict that Crime, Shame and Reintegration will become an important pattern-setting document in criminology.’

Donald R. Cressey - University of California, Santa Barbara

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Preface
pp vii-viii

1 - Whither criminological theory?
pp 1-15

2 - The dominant theoretical traditions: labeling, subcultural, control, opportunity and learning theories
pp 16-43

3 - Facts a theory of crime ought to fit
pp 44-53

4 - The family model of the criminal process: reintegrative shaming
pp 54-68

5 - Why and how does shaming work?
pp 69-83

6 - Social conditions conducive to reintegrative shaming
pp 84-97

7 - Summary of the theory
pp 98-107

8 - Testing the theory
pp 108-123

9 - Reintegrative shaming and white collar crime
pp 124-151

10 - Shaming and the good society
pp 152-186

References
pp 187-216

Index
pp 217-226

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